This is nonsense IMO.  You don't defeat r-selection populations by becoming an r-selection population yourself.  Earth is generally overpopulated in terms of sustainability and k-selection populations are naturally going to taper down to compensate.  They will reproduce more when there is actually an abundance of space, resources, and reason to.  It is not a permanent death spiral.  K-individuals are not going to have 4 kids while living inside a tiny apartment somewhere with no means to support them.

It seems obvious K-selection populations never could have existed in the past without using strategies of going to war against or containing r-selection populations/isolating themselves against them.  That is what will happen in the future as well.  The "soft-warfare" against r-selection populations started long ago with innocuous tactics such as "white flight", but will eventually ramp up into full scale warfare as certain groups act as white people stalkers - following whites around and demanding free welfare or violence if they don't give in to subsidize their dysfunctional r-lifestyle.




Gotta love this quote:

"From a compendium of sources, the average crustal abundance of both metals is around 4 ppb. Based
solely on this fact, platinum and gold should trade at about the same price."

Yet going by this logic, silver is coming out of the ground at only a 9:1 ratio to gold, so silver would be vastly more undervalued using his logic and there would be no reason to talk about platinum at all.